FactGrid:Freemasonry data model

Wikibase is an extremely flexible software. We can create practically any form of statements on any sort of objects. There are, actually, no "sorts" of objects, just objects of knowledge under Q-Numbers (called "items"). They win qualities through the various statements we make on them — they state "properties" of the objects through P-numbers.

The open and versatile arrangements allows us to set "labels" and "descriptions" in various languages on both our Q-numbers of items and our P-numbers of properties.

While we can create any statement for any item we should accumulate statements in a wider system so that searches get conclusive answers for the whole field of items we are handling — like our several thousands of lodges. This page is there to collect wider agreements on how we make certain statements in the complex sphere of Freemasonry.

Lodges

Basic Data

• "Instance of" Property:P2 to state "Lodge (Freemasonry)" Item:Q11211 or "Minerval Church (Illuminati)" Item:Q11213
• "Place of home address" Property:P83 to refer to the respective town or city
• "Address" Property:P208 to state a specific real estate where meetings took place
• "Begin date" Property:P49
• "End date" Property:P50

• use "history" Property:P50 + "active phase" Item:Q94446 and qualifiers "begin" Property:P49 and Property:P50 if you want to mark stretches of activity and inactivity. See Item:Q10575

Integration

• "Degrees worked" Property:P361 to state "St John's Masonry" Item:Q99800 or "Scottish Freemasonry" Item:Q99749
• "Next higher hierarchy level" Property:P428 to state for instance the "Prefecture Liguria (Illuminati)" Item:Q11165 in the case of Gotha's Minerval Church Item:Q10601
• "System adhered to" Property:P521 in order to state the respective ritual system the lodge adopted see our

• FactGrid's list of masonic systems (can be expanded any time)

• "Mother Lodge" Property:P336 to state the Lodge that founded a particular Lodge
• "Patent granted by Property:P332 to state the Lodge that granted the patent

• add qualifier "date" Property:P106 to state the date the patent was granted
• add "primary source" to name the Item of the document

• "Grandlodge affiliation" Property:P430 to state the grandlodge a particular lodge has chosen as the roof organisation

Members

It is possible to state members on the lodge item with Property:P293, but not recommendable since some organisations will have thousands of members.